Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Churches and service

.... whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you shall make himself slave to all.

Those lines from Mark's Gospel are being read in churches around the world today.

Do churches 'do' service? They may be adept at doing  preaching, talking-down, pomposity, gobbledegook but service?

In an interview some weeks ago on RTE television Jesuit priest Peter McVerry said that the institutional Catholic Church comes between God and people.

2 comments:

Andreas said...

I just listened to Peter McVerry on the RTE player. It was great - there is nothing what i wouldn't agree with... except the afterlife!

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/the-meaning-of-life-with-gay-byrne-1302/10573612/

Thomas G McCarthy said...

I thought Tony Byrne made some good points in his Irish Times article the other day though...

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